Prof. Evelina Lamma earned her degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Bologna, Italy, in 1985, followed by her Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1990. She served as an Associate Professor at the University of Udine from 1992 to 1993 and at the University of Bologna from 1993 to 2000. Currently, she is a Full Professor in the Department of Engineering (DE) at the University of Ferrara, where she teaches courses in Artificial Intelligence and Foundations of Computer Science. She coordinated the Ph.D. program at the DE from 2003 to 2007 and was the coordinator for a bachelor’s and two master’s degree programs in ICT and Computer Science Engineering from 2007 to 2015. From 2015 to 2018, she was appointed as the Rector’s Delegate for Teaching.

Prof. Lamma’s research centers on artificial intelligence, covering theoretical, implementation, and applied aspects. Her work has significantly advanced knowledge representation and reasoning, computational logic, logic programming, multi-agent systems, decision support systems, ontologies, and machine learning. She has developed innovative algorithms and reasoning tools applied in complex domains, including systems for probabilistic reasoning and learning at UNIFE (ml.unife.it). She has authored over 230 international publications and served on program committees for numerous national and international conferences. She was program co-chair of the 29th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2013) and of the Italian Conference on Artificial Intelligence in 1999 and 2015. Her achievements include the KSEM 2010 Highly Commended Paper Award and the RR 2013 Best Paper Award.

Prof. Lamma has actively contributed to organizing international events and has delivered invited talks and tutorials at conferences such as ICLP 1994 and ICLP 2015. She has participated in numerous national (Progetti Finalizzati and PRIN MIUR) and international (EU) research projects, with applications in computational logic, artificial intelligence, and clinical fields.

For a complete list of publications, see: Publications on University Webpage

Professor Lamma has participated in Italy's national Research Quality Evaluation (VQR) programs:

• In the 2007–2010 VQR, all five of her submitted works received excellent ratings, contributing to the Department of Engineering’s top position in the Information Engineering sector in Italy.

• In the 2011–2014 VQR, her two submitted works received high scores.

International Visiting Research Positions
She has held several invited visiting research positions:

• Brown University, Computer Science Department, Providence, RI, USA, September 1994

• Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista, Sweden, January 1990

• National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan, November 2015 and November 2016

Technology Transfer and Applied Research Projects
She has contributed to numerous technology transfer projects, including:

• ADES: An expert system for designing railway signaling systems, developed in 1986–87 in Prolog for SASIB S.p.a. (now Alstom), still in use for railway control system design.

• DNSev: A system for biochemical test validation, commercialized by Noemalife and used in several Italian hospital labs.

• TDMIN (Data Mining Techniques): A system for preventing nosocomial infections, developed with BMG s.r.l., Bologna, recognized as excellent in CIVR 2001-2004 evaluations.

• SPRING (Screening PRotocol INtelligent Government): Developed for managing screening protocols in collaboration with Noemalife S.p.a., 2005.

• Image Processing and Computer Vision Project for Industrial Classification, funded by the Ferrara Chamber of Commerce, 2010: Contributed to developing software systems for geological analysis, defect classification in manufactured goods, and medical imaging.

• Automatic Big Data Analysis for Industry 4.0, funded by the Ferrara Chamber of Commerce, 2018, ongoing: Machine learning application for intelligent analysis of industrial big data from the manufacturing sector.

Leadership in Industry-Funded AI and Data Projects

• Scientific Coordinator for the Machine Learning for Vision Inspection (ML4VI) project, funded by the Ministry of Economic Development (MISE) through the Competence Center Bi-REX for Industry 4.0, 2019–2022.

• Local Research Unit Coordinator for the project MIRC.O (Intelligent Debt Recovery System), aimed at developing AI to support family financial sustainability and credit reliability, funded by MISE.

Professor Lamma’s expertise in AI, data mining, machine learning, and deep learning is further evidenced by her collaborations on various industrial and competitive projects involving UNIFE-MechLav. These include:

• ML4VI Project (Competence Center Bi-REX, Industry 4.0, MISE)

• MIRC.O Project (Industry 4.0, MISE)

• EU H2020 TAILOR Project focusing on neural-symbolic machine learning

Professor Lamma has served as a local research unit coordinator for several national and international projects, including:

• EU Global Computing Action Project IST-2001-32530 (SOCS)
  Computational logic for specification and verification of agent societies, 2002–2015

• MIUR COFIN 2003
  Management and automatic negotiation of digital intellectual property rights: legal and computational aspects

• MIUR PRIN 2005
  Specification and verification of interaction protocols between agents

• 2010 Finalized Research Project No. RF-2010-2310570
  Decision support system to improve the appropriateness of repeated laboratory examinations, funded by the Italian Ministry of Health, 2012–2015

• Program Co-Chair Roles:

  • 29th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2013), Istanbul, Turkey, 2013. Edited the proceedings, published in the journal Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (Cambridge University Press).

  • XIV Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA 2015), Ferrara, Italy, 2015. Edited the proceedings in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (Springer Verlag).

  • VI Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA 1999), Bologna, Italy, 1999. Edited the proceedings in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (Springer Verlag).

  • 3rd Workshop on Extensions of Logic Programming (ELP 1992), 1992. Edited the proceedings in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (Springer Verlag).

• Other Editorial and Program Committee Roles:

  • Participated in program committees for numerous national and international conferences and workshops.

  • Received the KSEM 2010 Highly Commended Paper award and the RR 2013 Best Paper Award.

• Roles in Scientific Societies:

  • Board Member of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA)
    Two terms, 1997 – 2001

  • Auditor of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA)
    One term, 2001 – 2003

  • Executive Committee Member, Association for Logic Programming (ALP), UK
    2011 – 2014

• Probabilistic Description Logics
  Invited talk presented at the 31st International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2015), Cork, Ireland, 2015.

• Modularity in Logic Programming
  Invited tutorial delivered at the 11th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 1994), 1994

• Introduction to Logic Programming
  Tutorial presented at the 4th National Conference on Logic Programming, 1989, and at the 5th National Conference on Logic Programming, 1990

• The Concept of Object in Artificial Intelligence
  Tutorial presented at the 4th Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA 1995), 1995.

• Deputy Rector, University of Ferrara
  Currently serving in this role.

• Coordinator of the PhD Program in Engineering Sciences, Department of Engineering, University of Ferrara
  January 1, 2005 – December 31, 2007

• President of the Unified Degree Program Council in Information Engineering, Department of Engineering, University of Ferrara
  2007 – 2012
  Oversaw the program council for two consecutive terms.

• Coordinator of the Unified Degree Program Council in Information Engineering, Department of Engineering, University of Ferrara
  2012 – 2015
  Coordinated one bachelor's and two master's degree programs in ICT and Computer Science Engineering.

• Rector's Delegate for Teaching for Study Programs in the Scientific-Technological Area, University of Ferrara
  November 1, 2015 – October 31, 2018
  Represented 19 study programs within the university's scientific-technological areas.

• Member of the University Quality Assurance Board, University of Ferrara
  November 1, 2016 – February 2019

• President of the University Quality Assurance Board, University of Ferrara
  July 2017 – February 2019

• Registered in the ANVUR Register of System Evaluation Experts
  July 2017 – 2022

• Registered in the ANVUR Register of Disciplinary Experts
  Since July 2017

• Member of the Department of Engineering Board, University of Ferrara
  November 1, 2001 – 2004

• Representative of the University of Ferrara on the Board of Directors of the National Inter-University Consortium for Informatics (CINI)
  Since 2008

• Prof. Evelina Lamma currently teaches courses on Artificial Intelligence and Foundations of Computer Science at the University of Ferrara. 

• Tutor of 13 PhD students, since November 2000.